Palmo Anest

Doing some good to the Earth

There's a lot of Negative energy in the ortho OT yesterday! The ortho surgeons already over worked, post called, was hand picked by their boss to perform a difficult elective trauma case. The wound is bad. The whole process was quite bad so there's a lot of shouting, to the scrub nurses, circulating and MOs and HOs who assisted the surgery.

I decided to do some good for our earth to balance up the negative energy in the OT.

There's a lot of plastic and papers involved in wrapping up instruments. this is how they look like, wrap and sterile with autoclave.

Although we do have a dedicated bin for recycle in every OR (Operation Room), the nurses usually open up an instrument a just throw the plastic and papers all together into the normal waste basket in OT.


When I'm free, I usually seperate the plastics from the papers and keep the papers in the paper recycle bin. This is the messes I created on the OR floor while I seperate the papers from the plastics.

Now, there's only plastic in the waste basket and all the papers go into recycle bin at the other end of OR.

We do created a lot of waste in the hospital. f everybody do their parts in recycling, I'm sure we will do a lot of good to the earth.

The hospital which I did my elective in Taiwan many years ago has very good recycle culture. Everybody in the hospital do their parts in recycles. They have recycle bins almost everywhere and the staffs from the doctors to the helpers all automatically seperate their waste into proper bins. Things as small as opening up a needle, they will seperate the paper from the plastic package and throw them into proper bins.

Our people, dispite of constant reminders, still throw everything (non-clinical waste) into the common waste bin.

posted by LT @ 11:15 PM